Thanks for the videos Ben! West Michigan surfer here, and heard you had a a fellow Michigander give you crap/localism bs. It’s a shame to hear honestly. I’m always stoked seeing people enjoying the lake.
Would love to surf the Great lakes or anywhere different like that. Have to say though, I would have to laugh like hell in that dude's face for that one.
Dude the Great Lakes have the aloha spirit! Everyone here is stoked to have people in the water! I’ve almost never had people rude in the lakes and if they are, they don’t belong there.
Just moved to Minnesota from California for my daughter who needed spinal surgery. She was just discharged today after 21 days in the hospital. Minnesota is so cool and people are so nice. Hoping to check out Lake Superior one day and score some surf. Thanks for the video!! 🤙
Yes, we'll get 15 to 20 ft plus waves on Lake Erie when the storms are rolling, It's nothing to see 7 to 10 footers 🤙🏼.. my Buddy worked Coast Guard on the ocean for years, then was transferred to Lake Erie. He had never seen the Great Lakes. He said he never imagined in his lifetime how massive the waves are in the great lakes. Its actually terrified him going out on search and rescues for a few years, til he got use to it.. 🤙🏼
Hey Ben. I'm claiming this is your best video ever! Possibly the best surf video ever! I literally had to pick up my jaw off the ground while watching this. Amazing story and waves. Living the life!
we need some more props to my man and a lot more likes pressing a button can help him out so much it literally takes 3 seconds so why not PRESS IT love you ben, keep the drive and passion you have for surfing up!! :)
It's not easy to keep level 10 positivity all the time, kindness to others and smile on your face. Well done. Oh yeah and pretty good surfer too 😂 , respect from NY !
I can relate to the lake surfing scene. We surf the German Baltic Sea (which is smaller than most of the Great Lakes) and the stoke is just really high because it's such a novelty experience. When you score one of the better days it feels like winning in the lottery.
I'm an Estonian, born and living in Australia, but when I visited Estonia, I saw the possibility of surf there. Having just searched youtube, I see it's possible, and at times pretty good!! I live on the beach at Golden Bay Western Australia, and we don't get surf that good very often!!
I surfed some winter swells in snow in Japan and it was cold. With the right wetsuit it wasn’t too bad, MN looks badass though, what a swell to catch. Congrats Ben.
That’s was legendary!!!! Stoked you scored it on the Nut!😆 Thanks for making what we do on the lakes legitimate! safe travels and continued success. I hope our paths meet up again soon! Yeeeww🤙🏻
Your videos is what about surfing is, passion, search, and having fun whatever conditions are. Thanks for create this awesome vids. Hi to the hardcore Lake surfers, keep the spirit🔥
Wow!!! That is some Killer Shit, I live just approximately 20 miles away from Lake Michigan, grew up in Milwaukee, WI and never thought I would see waves like that in my neck of the woods.
Tons of great waves in Wisconsin. Hit up one ot the awesome shops down there and get out in that water! Shoutout EOS Surf Shop, Boardshack, Lake Effect.
So cool to see a fish being surfed still! I started surfing a twin fin fish back with David Nueva in the late 60s! I rode twins until my 3rd back surgery and was never able to surf again. Had 10 back surgeries to date!
For the dream indeed! Those were some beauties!!! I've been in North Carolina for a year now and I haven't seen waves that good here even! What a score!
Yewww!!! Great Lakes are where it's at. It's a different feel in more ways than one, and all of us here are stoked for anything rideable. Many of us won't wait for the perfect wave, because we'd be waiting a lifetime. We take what we can get, sometimes amazing, sometimes not, but love the vibe that lake surfing brings. 🤙
Ben! Thanks again for charging, exploring. and keeping us stoked with your pure hearted enthusiasm! Thanks to the camera team as well! You guys are bringing the stoke and helping the rest of us keep the dream alive! Mahalo!
Lake Erie Erie Pa local here!! There are many things to love about our lake surfing! No fear of sharks, and regular cold plunging are two of my favorites!! We appreciate you Ben!
Cool video! Erik is a great dude! I saw you signed a moose board. He's a good dude too! Taught himself how to shape boards because it's to expensive to ship them to MN. I was bummed I missed that swell, but I was surfing in Hawaii that week.
Hey Ben, praying everything with your health turns out okay. It took a bit but I was finally able to get sober and it was largely due to your influence. Thank you most graciously. Stoked to be living the dream at last! Tons of love and well wishes! ❤❤❤
Burton aka Kellyslaker is a one in a million legend!!! He's so stoked🤙 You manifested this many moons ago when you claimed 'show up blow up', dude scored, is an understatement 🤙💯🍍
Man I remember Surfer's rendition of that trip to the Great Lakes. Easily a Top 5 rendition of a Great Lakes trip ever printed. Just a really solid rendition, very true to the original.
Absolutely epic! I used to dream of this as a kid, looking at little waves on lakes and in rivers everywhere I went. Would try to find waves in flooded creeks every time it flooded as well! Ben Gravy...living my dream...LOL! Keep it up, man!!
It's useless to hang out and wait for that wave, yet the satellite photos show the reef, so a north-east wind appears to be the key. Couldn't be happier to see this great event.
So sick! Minnesota's what's up. Listen I love the lake surfing but would love to see you explore the Caribbean more. There is so much potential out there! For the dream!
Thanks for sharing your journey with lake surfing over the years. Your feedback as a well rounded ocean surfer and eternal stoker has shown people how legit it can be! It’s a true passion for me bro wish you all the best 🚀
Harder to surf on fresh water too!! Salt water is a lot easier to get up and riding than fresh by far. I waterskied in competitions in high school and would practice on Salt water but compete on fresh...Threw me off bigtime.
Didn't know you were from PA originally. I lived there a long time and now surf PNW. I never knew.. stoked to see Erie have something going on. The evening score on those larger crumbly but sometimes barrelled and sometimes ledgy sets look a lot like a spot here.. those conditions would also be regarded as epic. Solid edit & fun seeing everyone so psyched out!
Poached Frankfort Lighthouse MI in 2015 at shoulder high, lil cover ups and warm in August. Got UNSALTED, a once in my lifetime experienceShout out to Kahuna John, thx for tellin local story w/ this Malibu kid.
Grew up in cali live in Iowa . Vacation for me is trying to tach myself to surf every two years. I’m going to have to try to find the stoke in a lake . So sick thanks for the video.
starting surfing North Topsail Beach, NC, Murtle Beach SC then hopped to California, Huntington, at the pier, and the cliffs, Bosa Chica, Trestles, Old mans, Newport, Surfside, ANderson and at the Jetties Seal Beach, Blacks Beach, CA., Santa Cruz, San Onofre, at nudes trail 6, Manhatten Beach, Lajolla, Bodega Bay, Baja, Rosarita MX, Lincohn ,Oregon in a springer w/ water about 42 degrees, and a few others here and there... but never in the lakes.... that water looks hard and heavy and a blast!
Ol Ben… just landed today from a South African trip- surfed most of the world, but some of my best memories was surfing Lake Michigan as a little punk in Stevensville MI in the 80’s- we had real stoke (and a lot of patience :)
1972, I lived in Rincon PR, at a place called the Alamo. With 2 guys from the Great Lakes. One guy was named Jack. Good guys. If your still out there. GOD BLESS!
There's no place like Stoney Point, due to the bedrock jutting up at a steep angle just offshore. The force of all that water surging, and all of a sudden being pushed straight up to the surface causes breaks that can't be rivaled anywhere else on Superior. There's big waves all over that lake, but Stoney Point is special. Plus, they already got there late. By the time they got anywhere else, it would have been dark.
@colliemintz7732 It only breaks harder over there because the bedrock is right under the surface. It's definitely good surfing, but you'd have to have a death wish to ride down there.
Good stuff always keen to see great lakes surf. I like the unique waves you find a suggestion for you if you come back to au pt Phillip bay and maybe the ship waves of Corio Bay it was covered in Tracks magazine over 40 years ago
Awesome video! I'd like to see you surf one of those massive tidal bore waves. There's one in China and another at the mouth of the Amazon River. I think that be right up your alley.
What I think is so wild is I can’t even take a 5 minute cold shower or barely get myself to do the dishes and these people are surfing in freezing temps
Never thought I would see waves like this on a lake.
So epic
Thanks for the videos Ben! West Michigan surfer here, and heard you had a a fellow Michigander give you crap/localism bs. It’s a shame to hear honestly. I’m always stoked seeing people enjoying the lake.
Would love to surf the Great lakes or anywhere different like that. Have to say though, I would have to laugh like hell in that dude's face for that one.
Totally. Haha. Big Wave Ben has massive cred. Michigander here who has ridden a few big ones in HI and NorCal. Cheers.
yewwww paul wsp it’s oglaze
Localism bs guy dont get it if worried about localism Pathetic Keep goin Ben
Dude the Great Lakes have the aloha spirit! Everyone here is stoked to have people in the water! I’ve almost never had people rude in the lakes and if they are, they don’t belong there.
Just moved to Minnesota from California for my daughter who needed spinal surgery. She was just discharged today after 21 days in the hospital. Minnesota is so cool and people are so nice. Hoping to check out Lake Superior one day and score some surf. Thanks for the video!! 🤙
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Those lake surfers are the coolest bunch! So much friendliness and stoke💙
I LOVE your enthusiasm and appreciation for surfing the Great Lakes. You’re one of us!
3:05 “it looks bigger than it looks man”……this guy is not only a joy to listen to, but he’s smart as well!
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Oh man, it’s refreshing seeing Ben riding a regular surfboard
Everything from 13:00 on had my jaw DROPPED! SO cool!
THAT WAS SO SICK! The glassy, freshwater lines being torn to pieces at the end was all time. Some awesome turns out there man.
one of your best videos I've ever seen, and also 10ft in a lake wtf!! yiuhhhhh🤙🤙🤙
Yes, we'll get 15 to 20 ft plus waves on Lake Erie when the storms are rolling, It's nothing to see 7 to 10 footers 🤙🏼.. my Buddy worked Coast Guard on the ocean for years, then was transferred to Lake Erie. He had never seen the Great Lakes. He said he never imagined in his lifetime how massive the waves are in the great lakes. Its actually terrified him going out on search and rescues for a few years, til he got use to it.. 🤙🏼
@@ConditionZero76those 15-20s are not clean though right?
You guys measuring from the face or the back ? cause that’s max 4ft
@@nathanharakos7685 yup, face, only hawaii measures correctly (imo), from the back
Pure joy are a group of surfers catching ultra rare, once a decade swell. Nothing like it on earth.
Hey Ben. I'm claiming this is your best video ever! Possibly the best surf video ever! I literally had to pick up my jaw off the ground while watching this. Amazing story and waves. Living the life!
Thanks so much!
In the Great Lakes, storms come quickly, fresh water swells rise instantly and fiercely. Love em.....!!!
we need some more props to my man and a lot more likes pressing a button can help him out so much it literally takes 3 seconds so why not PRESS IT love you ben, keep the drive and passion you have for surfing up!! :)
It's not easy to keep level 10 positivity all the time, kindness to others and smile on your face. Well done. Oh yeah and pretty good surfer too 😂 , respect from NY !
@bengravy the myth the legend. Can be spotted in any novelty break near you. Keep on grinding...🤙
I can relate to the lake surfing scene. We surf the German Baltic Sea (which is smaller than most of the Great Lakes) and the stoke is just really high because it's such a novelty experience. When you score one of the better days it feels like winning in the lottery.
I'm an Estonian, born and living in Australia, but when I visited Estonia, I saw the possibility of surf there.
Having just searched youtube, I see it's possible, and at times pretty good!!
I live on the beach at Golden Bay Western Australia, and we don't get surf that good very often!!
Hello from the great lakes! Surfing in Germany sounds super fun!
Like brrr!! Das kalt! Props 🌊🤙❤🍻
Ben Gravy for President 2024!
I surfed some winter swells in snow in Japan and it was cold. With the right wetsuit it wasn’t too bad, MN looks badass though, what a swell to catch. Congrats Ben.
That’s was legendary!!!! Stoked you scored it on the Nut!😆 Thanks for making what we do on the lakes legitimate! safe travels and continued success. I hope our paths meet up again soon! Yeeeww🤙🏻
Mad respect to the boys who surf the frozen tundra of the Great Lakes...
There's some girls, too 💃🏄🐣
Ben Gravy, youre an animal. Ive heard about this all my life but never seen it. Thanks for bringing it to us.
Your videos is what about surfing is, passion, search, and having fun whatever conditions are. Thanks for create this awesome vids. Hi to the hardcore Lake surfers, keep the spirit🔥
Wow!!! That is some Killer Shit, I live just approximately 20 miles away from Lake Michigan, grew up in Milwaukee, WI and never thought I would see waves like that in my neck of the woods.
Tons of great waves in Wisconsin. Hit up one ot the awesome shops down there and get out in that water! Shoutout EOS Surf Shop, Boardshack, Lake Effect.
So cool to see a fish being surfed still! I started surfing a twin fin fish back with David Nueva in the late 60s! I rode twins until my 3rd back surgery and was never able to surf again. Had 10 back surgeries to date!
For the dream indeed! Those were some beauties!!! I've been in North Carolina for a year now and I haven't seen waves that good here even! What a score!
Yewww!!! Great Lakes are where it's at. It's a different feel in more ways than one, and all of us here are stoked for anything rideable. Many of us won't wait for the perfect wave, because we'd be waiting a lifetime. We take what we can get, sometimes amazing, sometimes not, but love the vibe that lake surfing brings. 🤙
Did anybody see the shark sized lake sturgeon in the wave at 15:02 next to Ben!!!! 😮
thats a person duckdiving the wave...
You scored all-time Stoney. Your stoked!
This was awesome Ben, and those guys looked like alot of fun. Good for you! ❤
That's insane....I could live there, stoke !!!😊❤
Modern day myth maker right there. Thanks BG
it's so funny hearing the surfer dude voice mixed with midwestern accents 🤣 this is one of the best surf videos ever
Ben! Thanks again for charging, exploring. and keeping us stoked with your pure hearted enthusiasm! Thanks to the camera team as well! You guys are bringing the stoke and helping the rest of us keep the dream alive! Mahalo!
Lake Erie Erie Pa local here!! There are many things to love about our lake surfing! No fear of sharks, and regular cold plunging are two of my favorites!! We appreciate you Ben!
Great points, what about killer sturgeon though??
Barrels and ice cream headaches! Pretty sick turns , amazing waves. Who knew, right on the nut for the dream!
If you didn't film it I wouldn't have believed it! So epic, love these documentary style vids so awesome
The shot of you surfing with the club in your hand was downright anthropological my man!!!!!!
How come no one is trunking it 😂😂
Much love from your local Lake Superior surfer 🤙
Yewwww thanks for showing love to the GREAT LAKES 🤙🏼❤ Freshwater Fantasy for the dream!
Cool video! Erik is a great dude! I saw you signed a moose board. He's a good dude too! Taught himself how to shape boards because it's to expensive to ship them to MN. I was bummed I missed that swell, but I was surfing in Hawaii that week.
Hey Ben, praying everything with your health turns out okay. It took a bit but I was finally able to get sober and it was largely due to your influence. Thank you most graciously. Stoked to be living the dream at last! Tons of love and well wishes! ❤❤❤
Ben you are living the dream, smiling and ripping too! Not to many people have that combo!
Can't imagine surfing those waves in fresh water
That was legendary brother!!!
You scored, big time!!🤙😎
Mad as bro!!!
Burton aka Kellyslaker is a one in a million legend!!! He's so stoked🤙 You manifested this many moons ago when you claimed 'show up blow up', dude scored, is an understatement 🤙💯🍍
Such a incredible video, amazing surf trips bro !!!!
Soooooo sick... Love from Australia
Amazing Surf Video! You're saving the pure joy of Surfing. It makes me wonder if Vikings ever surfed?
Wow! What a difference in your surfing!! Especially on the fiberglass! You were in a "state of flow". You are an inspiration Ben. Keep it up!!
Epic! Nice job boys!
Man I remember Surfer's rendition of that trip to the Great Lakes. Easily a Top 5 rendition of a Great Lakes trip ever printed. Just a really solid rendition, very true to the original.
I wrote that piece!
Absolutely epic! I used to dream of this as a kid, looking at little waves on lakes and in rivers everywhere I went. Would try to find waves in flooded creeks every time it flooded as well! Ben Gravy...living my dream...LOL! Keep it up, man!!
Ben, you caught it man - this video is mind-blowing. At 12:38 til the end, I cannot believe this is Lake Superior. Lake Superior is SUPERIOR!!!
More lakes I love ben as the novelty king! Keep going where other surfers don't! River waves are also fun.
That was as good as most waves I've seen you surfing on here this year! Classic!!
dang, crazy footage would of never believed it.
started surfing OHIO with 4 other guys in 1986- the water was always brown but we were always stoked .
You guys are having so much fun your stoke is on fire and on point 👍👍🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Best channel ever.
wow what an epic day for the lakes!
Epic #freshwaterfantasy ! 🫶
The great lakes are such a stokemachine especially the big pond 😉
Glad you scored Nub nation crew⭐🔥🙌 aloha Timothy
This is one of the best surfing videos I’ve ever seen!!
very cool story compilation! such a unique wave there. lmk if ya wanna get more of the slab here
OK, those are best, biggest lake waves I have ever seen!
Thanks for the video.
It's useless to hang out and wait for that wave, yet the satellite photos show the reef, so a north-east wind appears to be the key. Couldn't be happier to see this great event.
Epic - if I did not see you doing it I would not have believed it 🤙
So sick! Minnesota's what's up. Listen I love the lake surfing but would love to see you explore the Caribbean more. There is so much potential out there! For the dream!
Theres a cove barreling at Sheboygan occasionally.
Thanks for sharing your journey with lake surfing over the years. Your feedback as a well rounded ocean surfer and eternal stoker has shown people how legit it can be! It’s a true passion for me bro wish you all the best 🚀
so awesome
Definitely more international surf trips bro
New zealand is keen to show ya sum fun waves and lots of novelty waves as well
The documentary vibe is awesome! Solid stuff.
Your dedication and perseverance is admirable - plus you can rip! Great video.
Awesome Ben and very inspiring. Gonna get the wetsuit out !🇬🇧
Harder to surf on fresh water too!! Salt water is a lot easier to get up and riding than fresh by far. I waterskied in competitions in high school and would practice on Salt water but compete on fresh...Threw me off bigtime.
Was that Stony Pt scene from this winter? We have only had one snowfall and one cold snap. A weird winter for Duluth
Didn't know you were from PA originally. I lived there a long time and now surf PNW. I never knew.. stoked to see Erie have something going on. The evening score on those larger crumbly but sometimes barrelled and sometimes ledgy sets look a lot like a spot here.. those conditions would also be regarded as epic. Solid edit & fun seeing everyone so psyched out!
Every video you do is classic. This is some of your best work though, Ben. Keep ripping, brother.
Poached Frankfort Lighthouse MI in 2015 at shoulder high, lil cover ups and warm in August. Got UNSALTED, a once in my lifetime experienceShout out to Kahuna John, thx for tellin local story w/ this Malibu kid.
You're a force... mind blown Ben Gravy.
Burts a legend, never met him but follow his socials and hes so sick hahah
Grew up in cali live in Iowa . Vacation for me is trying to tach myself to surf every two years. I’m going to have to try to find the stoke in a lake . So sick thanks for the video.
starting surfing North Topsail Beach, NC, Murtle Beach SC then hopped to California, Huntington, at the pier, and the cliffs, Bosa Chica, Trestles, Old mans, Newport, Surfside, ANderson and at the Jetties Seal Beach, Blacks Beach, CA., Santa Cruz, San Onofre, at nudes trail 6, Manhatten Beach, Lajolla, Bodega Bay, Baja, Rosarita MX, Lincohn ,Oregon in a springer w/ water about 42 degrees, and a few others here and there... but never in the lakes.... that water looks hard and heavy and a blast!
Ol Ben… just landed today from a South African trip- surfed most of the world, but some of my best memories was surfing Lake Michigan as a little punk in Stevensville MI in the 80’s- we had real stoke (and a lot of patience :)
Such an epic Lake Surf video, you're the best!!
4:08 such an epic clip 🔥
Aloha Ben, Thank you for taking me with you all these years. God bless you.
AWESOME VIDEO!!! Love to see where else you go!!
1972, I lived in Rincon PR, at a place called the Alamo. With 2 guys from the Great Lakes. One guy was named Jack. Good guys. If your still out there. GOD BLESS!
I'm from day 1
Forgot all these lake clips
Great Compilation new shots
Get well soon
Brother
Just truly spectacular Ben!!!!🤙🤙
what a wild trip!
That was inspiring.First i thought You have visited my homebreak at the Baltic sea during the winter time...Almost😅
I braved rincon with perfect peelers yesterday and thought the 57 degree water might kill me. You are a true he man for surfng here!
It would be interesting to check out the other surf breaks in the area on that same epic day and see if stony point was truly the best spot.
There's no place like Stoney Point, due to the bedrock jutting up at a steep angle just offshore. The force of all that water surging, and all of a sudden being pushed straight up to the surface causes breaks that can't be rivaled anywhere else on Superior.
There's big waves all over that lake, but Stoney Point is special.
Plus, they already got there late. By the time they got anywhere else, it would have been dark.
@BradleyBellwether-oy2qi it looks like their might be a couple good point breaks up the way, no?
@colliemintz7732 It only breaks harder over there because the bedrock is right under the surface.
It's definitely good surfing, but you'd have to have a death wish to ride down there.
@@BradleyBellwether-oy2qi sounds like a good place
Ben your surfing has gotten so much better. Last time I seen you was at my neighbor house Bret barley
Good stuff always keen to see great lakes surf. I like the unique waves you find a suggestion for you if you come back to au pt Phillip bay and maybe the ship waves of Corio Bay it was covered in Tracks magazine over 40 years ago
Awesome video! I'd like to see you surf one of those massive tidal bore waves. There's one in China and another at the mouth of the Amazon River. I think that be right up your alley.
What I think is so wild is I can’t even take a 5 minute cold shower or barely get myself to do the dishes and these people are surfing in freezing temps